{"id":52,"date":"2007-01-06T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T08:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=52"},"modified":"2007-01-06T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T08:52:00","slug":"more-middle-class-pilots-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/01\/more-middle-class-pilots-for-india.html","title":{"rendered":"More Middle-class pilots for India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">New Delhi<\/span>: Flying schools have reported an increase in the number of students from middle-class families. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s education loans which have enabled aspiring pilots from these middle-class families to take wings.<br \/>Though the average cost of pilot training in India is around Rs 13 lakh, high salaries and shorter gestation periods have led to this trend.<br \/>Flying schools have tied-up with banks as cost of pilot training is exorbitant and interested candidates are now coming from middle-income families. Average salary of the parents of aspiring pilots is around Rs 25,000 per month, say experts.<br \/>Airlines have witnessed a similar trend. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have more pilots from middle income families now, especially girls, as compared to last year,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said a SpiceJet official.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">06\/01\/07 Vishakha Talreja\/Economic Times <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Flying schools have reported an increase in the number of students from middle-class families. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s education loans which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}